Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America: Being Replies to Questions Transmitted by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade Throughout the World, Presented to the General Anti-slavery Convention Held in London, June 1840 |
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... Letters , by JOHN SCOBLE , Esq . Price One Shilling . REPORT ON FREE LABOUR , presented to the General Anti - slavery Convention by JOHN STURGE , Esq . , of Birmingham . Price Sixpence . MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ANTI ...
... Letters , by JOHN SCOBLE , Esq . Price One Shilling . REPORT ON FREE LABOUR , presented to the General Anti - slavery Convention by JOHN STURGE , Esq . , of Birmingham . Price Sixpence . MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ANTI ...
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... letter from a Virginian , whom the editor calls " a very good and sensible man , " asserting that twenty thousand slaves had been driven to the south from Virginia that year , but little more than three - fourths of which had then ...
... letter from a Virginian , whom the editor calls " a very good and sensible man , " asserting that twenty thousand slaves had been driven to the south from Virginia that year , but little more than three - fourths of which had then ...
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... letter , dated February 24th , 1839 : " The foreign slave trade was carried on to some considerable extent when I was at the south . Were you to visit all the plantations in South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi , I think ...
... letter , dated February 24th , 1839 : " The foreign slave trade was carried on to some considerable extent when I was at the south . Were you to visit all the plantations in South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi , I think ...
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... letter , dated March 13 , 1835 , and addressed to the Rev. Orange Scott , editor of the Wesleyan Observer , Lowell , Mas- sachusetts : “ There are many vices which are winked at by the good and en- couraged by the ungodly , who hold ...
... letter , dated March 13 , 1835 , and addressed to the Rev. Orange Scott , editor of the Wesleyan Observer , Lowell , Mas- sachusetts : “ There are many vices which are winked at by the good and en- couraged by the ungodly , who hold ...
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... letter by a New England minister of the methodist connexion , who spent some time as a preacher in the south . " As to the horrors of slavery , they are many every way . First , the slave trade is the most horrible of all . Indeed this ...
... letter by a New England minister of the methodist connexion , who spent some time as a preacher in the south . " As to the horrors of slavery , they are many every way . First , the slave trade is the most horrible of all . Indeed this ...
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Page 222 - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 258 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Page 211 - I warn the abolitionists," says South Carolina, "ignorant, infuriated barbarians as they are, that if chance shall throw any of them into our hands, he may expect a felon's death.".
Page 260 - That no law shall be passed to prevent the poor in the several Counties and townships within this State from an equal participation in the schools, academies, colleges, and universities within this State which are endowed, in whole or in part, from the revenue arising from donations made by the United States for the support of schools and colleges...
Page 194 - Neither of these is, to any extent worth naming, enjoyed by slaves, as a moment's consideration will satisfactorily show. The law, as it is here, does not prevent free access to the scriptures — but ignorance, the natural result of their condition, does. The Bible is before them, but it is to them a sealed book. " The light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not.
Page 169 - ... conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the...
Page 191 - ... corrected without trial, by receiving, on the bare back, twenty-five stripes with a whip, switch, or cow-skin.' " In South Carolina, slaves may not meet together for the purpose of ' religious worship ' before sunrise or after sunset, unless the majority of the meeting be composed of white persons, under the penalty of 'twenty lashes well laid on.
Page 245 - The President of the United Mexican States, to the inhabitants of the Republic — Be it known : That in the year 1829, being desirous of...
Page 25 - ... life. From the right bank, on the contrary, a confused hum is heard which proclaims the presence of industry; the fields are covered with abundant harvests, the elegance of the dwellings announces the taste and activity of the...